Dolly Parton can teach us something

3:04 PM,
May 17, 2013

Written by

Carl Mumpower
FROM THE RIGHT

North Carolina has regressed from one of the country's best publicly supported mental health systems to one of the worst. For the same reasons one can't clean teeth with doughnuts, things aren't getting better.

Yes, funding pressures, bureaucracy and provider avarice are contributing factors, but the real problem is our approach to intervention. The noble mission of helping people live better has been exchanged for an ill-advised mischief of enabling people to feel better. Chasing symptoms without addressing causes assures failure no matter how much money, manpower and medicine are ...